[Gay State Conservative]

Good God....is this Apple shareholder trying to bump up the value of his stock....AGAIN?????

Give it a rest,"swordmaker",we understand that you love Apple and own lots of its stock.

[Swordmaker]

Market Watch has the explanation for Apple's phenomenal growth: Apple clobbers its competition! PING!

Please!
No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!
PLEASE! Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
IGNORE THEM!!!

 

Apple Success Ping!

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[GOP_Lady]

I love my new iPad! :-)

[tacticalogic]

I hear Serious Materials is experiencing phenomenal growth, too.

[microgood]

The article is wrong about the Kindle. The iPad will have little effect on Kindle sales because it is so cheap, the battery lasts for weeks, it is light and works in more environments like outdoors/sunlight where the iPad is useless and too expensive to take to the beach.

[Mears]

bfl

[Larry Lucido]

Mmmm, apple cobblers.

[SamAdams76]

Well in September of 2003, I finally decided to get one of those MP3 players. Now at that time, the iPod had been out for a couple of years, but I never really considered purchasing one. Instead, I bought the Sony MP3 player because I felt at the time that Sony was a better brand than Apple and that Sony would eventually dominate the MP3 player market in the same way they dominated the portable audio market with the Walkman a decade or so earlier.

That ended up being a bad decision. When I got the Sony MP3 player home, it was incredibly frustrating and cumbersome to get music loaded onto it. I had to load this special program and then learn how to navigate all these commands to first import the files from my hard drive (into the special program) and then to push them into the device. Using a 1.1 USB interface, it took about 10 minutes to load about 30 songs (about three or four albums worth of music).

Once the music was on the device, there was no easy way to bring up what you wanted to hear. There was a limited display and you had to wait as the song title and artist slowly crawled across the tiny screen. I very quickly got tired of hearing the songs you loaded but it was such a painful experience putting new songs on it, I didn't bother after the first 2-3 times. The device was about the size and weight of an empty cigarette lighter. It did not take long for the device to get all scuffed up. Within just a few weeks, I put it on a shelf and forgot about it.

Now I own iPods, several of them. Had I known better back in 2003, I'd have bought all the Apple shares that I could have afforded.

[Shamrock-DW]

SkyNet.......

[stripes1776]

iProduct! What a great way to summarize Apple!

[TruthHound]

Why is it that every time I enter an Apple thread, I'm hit with the stench of urine?

Here's the bottom line.

1984 - The Macintosh will change the computer industry. CHECK...

2001 - The iPod + iTunes will change the music industry. CHECK...

2007 - The iPhone will change the Smart phone industry. CHECK...

2010 - The iPad will change multiple industries (education, retail, shipping, more). CHECK...

Don't like Apple products or innovation? Spend your money elsewhere and MOVE ON.

[ar15cz75]

... yawn ...

[gitmo]

Apple entered the market with a different proposition. It was open to the creation of a virtually unlimited number of applications, including any created by the phone companies. Further, it would facilitate adoption of the apps through the App Store. With so many software products available to consumers for purchase and for free, moving to another product without a similar number of solutions is unappealing. The iPhone now has extraordinarily loyal customers.

Microsoft has adopted a very similar market model with Windows Phone. The online store is open to developers without the secrecy restraints that Apple has imposed. The IDE is Visual Studio, which should allow easier development and the profit model for developers is a tad more attractive.

The standards on the phones is set quite high, and the phones appear to me slightly easier to use than the iPhone.

Plus, the phones are open to many carriers.

The question is can they catch up to the iPhone sales? They're hitting the market next month. It should be amusing to watch.